PlayStation Classic is Hacked, PS Classic Game Swapping Videos!

Following the PS Classic Teardown, it's been only a few days since the official PlayStation Classic Launch and already Sony's mini PlayStation Classic console has been hacked with PS Classic hackers demonstrating PlayStation game swapping videos of the feat!

According to a Twitter reply from yifanlu when asked if Sony botched up PS Classic security signing with public keys, he stated "No rather they used GnuPG to sign/encrypt and they left in their private keys."

Below is the latest progress / videos from bakueikozo, nvsofts, puhitaku, yifanlu and others including anima22 via emuonpsp demonstrating a PlayStation Classic root shell through the UART serial connection with a start.sh script and replacing / swapping out stock games such as Battle Arena Toshinden with their own including a Crash Bandicoot (Prototype) to get them running on the PlayStation Classic!

EMMC dump of PlayStation Classic with SD card reader-[Extra edition] dump PlayStation Classic EMMC-Zopfcode
Finally connected
PlayStation Classic, I tried to put the shell to rewrite eMMC
I rewrite the root of the/etc/passwd to laugh and the timing is too same www after, because it is a style that does not fear God, the w that is mounted and rewritten in the D0 connection without taking backup of the dump, Since I put it in the console from here dd if =/ dev/mmcblk0 in the image acquisition
I actually made the image file of the game and tried to load it. I don't see the place where I'm stabbing, but I read it from USB memory. It's completely manual now, but it can be properly incorporated if you do well. PlayStation Classic hack done. Play so far. Chingin, get back to work...

PlayStation Classic hack complete. I can play any games from my shelf. Load game image file on USB storage.

gg Sony please learn what a private key is kthxbye
Apparently Sony used a public key to sign software on the PlayStation Classic. People are basically just laughing at it now and loading images to test on the system.
PlayStation Classic root shell through UART serial start.sh script:

#!/bin/sh

# THIS IS NOT FOR REGULAR USERS!!!
# You need to solder to the UART port and short the two pads under the PCB near the charger.
# Baud rate: 921600

red_led () {
  SLEEP=1
  LOOP=1
  if [ x"$1" != x ]; then LOOP=$1; fi
  if [ x"$2" != x ]; then SLEEP=$2; fi
  for i in `seq 1 $LOOP`; do
    echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/red/brightness
    sleep $SLEEP
    echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/red/brightness
    sleep $SLEEP
  done
}

if [ ! -f "/tmp/ran" ]; then
  touch /tmp/ran

  #mount -o remount,rw /
  dmesg -n 1
  ps -aux > /dev/ttyS0 2>&1
  systemctl stop getty.target
  systemctl stop console-getty.service
  systemctl stop [email protected]
  killall agetty
  /sbin/agetty -a root -8 -L ttyS0 921600 xterm

  red_led "6" "0.3"
fi

sleep 60

No rather they used GnuPG to sign/encrypt and they left in their private keys.
Oh, wow. That's even worse.

Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight - Dancing the unhacked PlayStation tears away

Running Crash Bandicoot (Prototype) on PlayStation Classic

Running Crash Bandicoot (Prototype) on PlayStation Classic [YouTube Mirror]

Running Custom Games on PlayStation Classic from Internal Storage

PSClassic imbNES with PSClassicEdit

Spyro on the Playstation Classic?? by DaveeFTW via DEFAULTDNB

There is already a PS1 Classics Emulator Compatibility List started on the Wiki and for those who recall it, Sony's previous epic fail was in the incorrect implementation of the PS3 ECDSA which revealed the PlayStation 3 console's private cryptography key allowing scene developers to completely decrypt any firmware and modify it.

Here are some other PlayStation-related Tweets lighting up Twitter today, including what appears to be an MSXOrbis game .ROM browser and OpenGL for PS4:

Spoiler: GPGHAX

Spoiler: Depreciated

Add your own Game to the PlayStation Classic using a USB Flash Drive: Spiderman

PlayStation Classic MTK bootrom hash:

55C1054C2B56CF08953D441BB7F345EC580FFB15E7D1918F62749CB74ADB6C54

Spoiler: dump_bootrom.bin

Some also report using BleemSync can help get the most out of the PS Classic, to quote roughly translated:

BleemSync is an application to launch PlayStation Classic games from a USB storage device, which supports multi-disc games and creates everything needed to be loaded on PlayStation Classic.

Warning: BleemSync overwrites parts of the system files to allow safe changes, changes the user interface to display added games, and supports multi-disk games.

Download: BleemSync (Latest Version) / GIT / BleemSync Central Missing Games Spreadsheet

From the README.md, to quote: BleemSync

Spoiler

Update #2: A PSClassicTool.exe GUI is now available from elierodrigue making the above process simpler for many, with details from the README.md as follows:

Download: PSClassicTool / GIT

Spoiler

Update #3: Morphisor also made available a PSClassicEdit application with details from the README.md as follows:

Download: PSClassicEdit.zip / GIT

Spoiler

RetroArch ported to PlayStation Classic!

• https://www.libretro.com/index.php/libretro-and-classicmini-consoles-update/

• https://github.com/rubixcube6/Playstation-Classic-Theme-Support
• PlayStation Classic Themes Repository by Mason Barry

Download: oecore-x86_64-cortexa7hf-neon-vfpv4-toolchain-nodistro.0.sh (106.06 MB)
HOW TO USE Dual Shock 4 (PS4) Controllers On The PlayStation Classic With Analog + Rumble

From Dev genie (ala nuagedan100) also comes PSClassicMiniGui version 0.1 to add your games quickly and easily!

Download: Ps_classic_mini_gui_v0.1.zip (1.8 MB)

PlayStation classic with BleemSync v4.1 - loading the entire USA library

PS CLASSIC MINI ULTIMATE by cloudedan100

Download: Ps_Classic_Mini_Ultimate.rar (1.9 MB)

PLAYSTATION CLASSIC ULTIMATE

And from pascl comes pbPSCReAlpha which is used with PSClassic in order to view, edit and Re-sort Alphabetically the contents of an USB drive used with bleemsync.

Download: pbPSCReAlpha0.61.zip / GIT

Spoiler

Finally, some additional video guides are available HERE for multi-disc games and running PSP games using the PSC PPSSPP Core (PSP Emulator) on PlayStation Classic.

Cheers to ZachZS for the heads-up on this PlayStation Classic hacking news earlier today!

 

[stooged]

@DEFAULTDNB
So far it is the only device i have found that emulates killer instinct gold on n64 decently.

 

[ak74fu2h8r]

This is awesome news. Ive been waiting for a remake of the console since Bleem! was abandoned. Is there going to by chance going to be a compatibility list inc. region locked games?

 

[Nebro]

the time of hacking this should of be in hacking ps4 5.55 first ..

 

[DEFAULTDNB]

@Nebro, compared to PS4 hacking this was a 1hr project, Sony f’d it up royally with zero security implemented properly. PS4 is secure AF, and can’t be pwnd anywhere near as easily.

 

[stooged]

@Nebro
The 5.55 ps4 is hacked so there is no point spending time hacking it. There is no point for anyone to release a 5.55 hack, it serves no purpose for homebrew.

A 5.55 release would only serve "backups" of newer games so it is good it is not released.

 

[Koh23]

@stooged
I agree with you, but..... What homebrew? 99% of people really dont know, dont need and dont want homebrew, we all know what is primary and associated with words jailbreak, jolly wooden leg scoundrels, and stuff...

And this goes far as i remember, from early 80-ties, when playstation console was only someone's wet dream.

Meaning, why jailbreak, why bother if you dont want to release it? It's not that you can decide what will someone do with your work, using it for backups or to develop homebrew,or anything.

Yes, we all know that ps is jailbreaked fully, i even heard that cfw is floating in some circles (not that i believe that), so.... Whats the point of not releasing that?

No mean to disrespect or be ....., but there's no point to NOT release.

 

[DEFAULTDNB]

No keys = there is no CFW floating anywhere.

Homebrew IS coming to 5.05.

If people had listened when 1.76 was out, when 4.05 was out, when 4.55 was out, when 5.05 was out... they would have a hackable console...

 

[Koh23]

So, what we can expect from homebrew? I mean from perspective of average user who just want to have fun?

 

[DEFAULTDNB]

OpenGL is big news: Emulators, possibly even retroarch, homebrew games, unity-brew, media players, file managers.

We already have mods and cheats tools, like AFR, so more powerful native tools to do things on the console.

Linux is progressing now too, internal hdd, pro, and audio support.

 

[stooged]

@Koh23
Alot of the people that hack devices like the ps4 do it for the personal accomplishment and to learn about the devices security and how it operates.

releasing the information is normally only done once you are bored with the device or if you have a different means of exploiting the same device.

The current state of the public 5.05 hack gives everyone more than enough to create homebrew and backup games so there is just no benefit for any person that has a hack for a higher level firmware to release it especially if that vulnerability exists on the latest firmware version.